A look at artist renderings released by MGM Resorts International depicting the $800 million resort casino complex they are aiming to build in the South End of Springfield, Massachusetts.

SPRINGFIELD — With MGM Springfield standing as the last remaining proposal for the only resort casino license in Western Massachusetts, state Gaming Commission Chairman Stephen Crosby said Tuesday "it's not very likely that they would be stopped."

"So, probably we will go forward with them, although that’s not certain, I’m only one commissioner, there are five of us," Crosby said. "But you can be sure it will be done with an eye to maximizing all of the criteria that we’re looking for."

MGM officials will present their proposal to the Gaming Commission on Thursday at 9:30 a.m., postponed from Wednesday by the snowstorm. The presentation will be livestreamed and can be accessed from MassLive.

Following the presentation, Crosby said, there will be at least two public hearings, including one in Springfield and one in a surrounding community.

"When we do award a license, whether it’s to MGM or anybody else, we will do it with conditions that we will enforce, so there’s still a lot of room to give us constructive public feedback," Crosby told Leclerc.

Crosby said the license will be awarded no later than May 31.

Crosby told Leclerc MGM has a strong proposal. "I think they’ve already improved their proposal a lot because of the competitive situation they had to go through. Mayor (Domenic) Sarno put them through a competitive situation, they thought they were going to have to compete with Mohegan Sun in Palmer, so they’ve been putting a lot into this even before this time comes."

MGM is proposing an $800 million complex in Springfield's South End. The Las Vegas-based gaming and hospitality company was selected by Sarno last year over a competing proposal from Penn National Gaming, which had sought to build a casino resort complex in the North End.

Other plans for casino resorts in Western Massachusetts that have fallen by the wayside include: Ameristar Casinos, which bought the former Westinghouse site in East Springfield and planned a resort complex there before dropping its bid 14 months ago; Hard Rock International, which wanted to build a complex on land at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield; and Mohegan Sun, which had long sought to build a casino complex on land across from Massachusetts Turnpike Exit 8 in Palmer. Both Hard Rock, in September, and Mohegan Sun, in November, saw their proposals defeated by voters.